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What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
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Action Approve Capable Moral Reflection
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
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Blush Expression Human
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Children Future Present Surround
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
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Acquire Conclude Female Male Mankind Music Rhythm
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
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Light Man One Liner Origin Shed
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.
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Fact Group Law Observation Strong Understand Youth
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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Beautiful Evolve Life Simplicity View
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
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Admit Change Greatness Slow Step
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
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Cold Devote Evolution Fantasy Myself
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
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Face Glad Hold Nature Bright One Liner
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
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Change Strong World
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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Giving Goodness Reason Religion Volume
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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Esteem Faculty Intellectual Power Value
I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Constitution Moral
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Cattle Character Dog Horse Man Marriage
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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Amaze Attention Close Graduation Sudden

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